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      Symrise

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      3.6

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (395 total reviews)
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      Dr Heinz-Jürgen Bertram

      83% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      Symrise has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 395 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Symrise employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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      395 reviews
      2.0
      Jul 13, 2016

      Consumer Insight Director

      Consumer insight
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Apparent complete freedom to operate, due to lack of management can make you feel powerful, but that is only an impression. Very heavy workload enables a lot of learning by doing.

      Cons

      Budgets regularly "disappear", absolutely no team spirit, you are on your own, management is only shouting orders and there is no strategy or picture of success and no proper Leadership

      1.0
      Nov 18, 2015

      Horribly Mismanaged

      Flavor division
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Wide flex time options, unlimited sick days, good people at the lower level of the org chart. Puts money into facility to keep things up to date although the process is slow.

      Cons

      Management is a quagmire. The upper echelon in Germany is completely out of sync with American business and the US management team. Upper and middle management are a wasteland of the worst kind of leaders imaginable. You'll be hard pressed to find a worker who doesn't have their resume out, looking to jump. You can't blame them as firings and mass layoffs are frequent - they are currently on a 3 year cycle for cuts. Because of this, turnover is very high. HR at Symrise is full of genuinely terrible people - unapproachable and disingenuous. Because of all this, the culture is miserable and unhappy.

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